Thread by @matthewstoller

I have views on what Democrats are doing wrong politically, but the basic issue is that we are out of touch. I've never seen such wildly pro-labor sentiment in America in in my lifetime, but the Democratic governing class has no connection to the working class.

When Democrats admire a working class icon as much as they admire Anthony Fauci, they will no longer be out of touch. Screw that. When Democrats can *name* a working class icon...

https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1455652069738692608

Structurally the Democrats rely for their political machinery on nonprofits, and that's mostly untethered from any feedback loop except what foundation and corporate executives think. I don't really know how to fix any of this.

I keep coming back to this note on how Georgia Pacific ripped the heart out of an Arkansas town that had gone Democratic even into the late 2010s, and then the town immediately started voting for Republicans. mattstoller.substack.com/p/enough-is-en…

A conversation among writers at the Atlantic, elite funders, wealthy pollsters, tenured professors and corporatized political operatives isn't going to come up with the right answer, because that conversation is the problem. The Democrats are a closed loop cartel.

I haven't seen a better example of this problem than Tara McGowan, who literally ruined the Iowa caucuses with an app that couldn't count votes. And yet Silicon Valley billionaires just bestowed her with tens of millions of dollars! mattstoller.substack.com/p/iowa-caucuse… axios.com/soros-hoffman-…

There are so many problems with the Democratic Party it's hard to know where to start. And what's even worse is that you can't even talk about most of the problems, because so many of them are sacred cows.

It's worse than the Dolphins. Maybe.

The only Democratic candidate I've seen really capture this dynamic is @LucasKunceMO. There are certainly others, I just don't pay that much attention to candidates. Kunce is worth watching because of how he talks about economic and political power. It's very different.

Then again, this agenda does seem really compelling.

https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1447683514208505859

Vote Democrat. We'll protect Obamacare, and we'll impose net neutrality rules to protect the open internet so you can access GoFundMe to beg in public for whatever Obamacare doesn't cover.